Arab League, Khartoum and Uganda to Solve South Sudanese Problem? NO WAY

The government of South Sudan has expressed optimism of the support member countries of the Arab League could provide to address its conflict. Foreign Affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday that the Secretary of the Arab League of nations had invited him to participate in the forthcoming meeting of the Arab foreign ministers on the situation in the new nation.

AT THIS CRITICAL TIME, LET’S REMEMBER THE WORDS OF DR. JOHN GARANG, NOT JUST ON HIS DISPUTATION OF BIASED NORTHERN STEREOTYPING OF THE SOUTH, BUT MORE SO, ON HOW WE SHOULD AND MUST BE MASTERS OF OUR OWN FATE IN OUR OWN HOUSE, THERE IS NO ANY HELP OUT THERE WHATSOEVER. THIS IS A BROTHERLY QUARREL, FRATRICIDE AS IT MAY OR COULD BE. IT IS NOT THE REASON TO AUCTION OFF OUR DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY AS A NATION. ENOUGH OF SELF-DEFEATISM PRESIDENT KIIR!!!

We are not anybody’s burden; we are masters in our own house. We are confident in ourselves and of the future. There are those who might entertain the false beliefs that we cannot govern ourselves, we should not and cannot let their thought patterns influence us. Let us collectively go down in history as the generation of South Sudanese that turned Sudan around by putting an end to discrimination, racism, inequality, division, exploitation, and marginalization at best, and slavery and casual murder at worst. Let us unite against ethnic, religious, and racial divides to restore personal dignity for all. Let us move from total economic dormancy to total vibrancy; from relegation and resignation to a cycle of poverty, destitution and misery to activism, hope, and excitement. Let us reject being mere spectators in life, to becoming masters of our own destiny. A Bishop friend of mine yesterday told me a joke that three people went to see God, and the Almighty asked them what they wanted. One of them said he wanted wisdom, the second said he wanted riches, and the third, a Southern Sudanese, said he was only accompanying the other two. You will guess who wanted wisdom and who wanted riches, but what I want to tell Southerners is to stop accompanying others and be masters of their own destiny; I say the same for all Sudanese and for all people of Africa.…I have been commanding the SPLA officers and men of various ranks in this war; many of them have paid the ultimate sacrifice. If my turn comes to pay the ultimate sacrifice, and indeed it comes, then be it. We are in this war to win or die for the national goals and objectives we believe in. I am just an officer; a commander-in-chief of a patriotic army and one officer just like many of you. If death comes my way I shall die like many of our compatriots who have already laid down their lives in this war. SPLM/A Oye!

South Sudan: No power-sharing without political reform

Power-sharing, on the other hand, is likely to mean a return to a status quo ante – with Salva Kiir and Riek Machar as President and Vice President master-minding a sharing of posts down the ranks. Understandably, the very suggestion of power-sharing as a solution evokes cynicism. When asked by the New York Times how he imagines the current crisis in South Sudan to end, Jok Madut Jok, one of the country’s leading intellectuals, answered with obvious resignation, referring to President Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar: “The two men will eventually sit down, resolve their issues, laugh for the cameras, and the thousands of civilians who have died will not be accounted for.” Without political reform, reconciliation and power-sharing will more than likely be a dress rehearsal for another crisis. The alternative would combine meaningful political reform with reconciliation and power-sharing. Reconciliation without political reform would be no more than window dressing. The difference between power-sharing in end-of-apartheid South Africa and in post-CPA South Sudan is the difference between meaningful and cosmetic reconciliation.

Rebel Leader, Dr. Riek Machar, Unveils His Interim Cabinet

Below is the anticipated list of Machar’s interim cabinet;

Hon. Dr. Riek Machar Teny – Interim president

Vice President- Vacant; to be filled by other parties

1. Hon. Deng Alor Koul – Cabinet Affairs

2. Hon. Lt. Gen. Gier Chuang Aloung – Defence and Veterans Affairs

3. Hon. John Gatwich Lul -Justice

4. Hon. Taban Deng Gai- Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

5. Hon. Eng. Chol Tong Mayay – Office of the President

6. Hon. Aloisio Emor Ojetuk – National Security Service

7. Hon. Madam Rebeca De Mabior – Interior & Wildlife Conservation

8. Hon. Kosti Manibe Ngai – Finance, Commerce and Economic Planning

9. Hon. Mabor Achol Kuer – Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Management

10. Dr. Olivia Lomoro – Health

11. Hon. Gabriel Changson Chang- Information & Broadcasting

12. Hon. Silvano Odwaro Gordon – Agriculture, Forestry, Tourism, Animal Resources and Fisheries

13. Hon. Aguil De’Chut Deng – Education, Science and Technology

14. Hon. Angelina Teny – Housing and Public Utility

15. Hon. Bor Gatwich – Electricity & Dams

16. Hon. Husien Maar Nyuot -Roads & Bridges

17. Dr. Costelo Garang Riny – Petroleum & Mining

18. Dr. Dhieu Mathok – Environment

19. Hon. Dr. Cirino Hiteng — Youth, Culture& Sports

20. Hon. Sarah Nyanath – Gender

21. Hon. Maj. Gen. Madut Bair Yel – Ministry of ICT

Are 4 Remaining Detainees in Juba, Coup plotters or Victims of Loose Tongues

By David Aoloch Bion

This is Age of Reason.  We should use of our rationalism to establish whether a given argument, statement, problem or situation is true, half-true or false.  We should also apply our moral Philosophy to separate facts from fictions.

The Government of South Sudan detained 11 men in connection with the coup attempt on December 15.  The Government released seven men on the condition that they tried to “overthrow the government through mass mobilization”.  She kept the four, namely Pagan Amum, Dr Majak Agoot, Gen. Oyai Deng, Ezekiel Lol on condition that they tried to “overthrow the government through military force”  , this is fiction

Before December 15, the Government had been planning to punish Pagan and Majak for their big talk in social gathering like funerals and weddings.

For example President was quoted in Citizen Newspaper saying, some politician are using funeral, and wedding to make political statement, he was referring to Majak and Pagan.

The following is the record of some of their big talk that annoyed the Government.

Let’s begin with Pagan. Pagan is always impulsive.  In 1996, the Sudan government said, it captured SPLA strong of Nimule.  Pagan was contacted by the BBC Focus on Africa in Asmara Eritrea; he confirmed that the SPLA lost Nimule. , which was false.

In Khartoum, as Minister of Cabinets Affairs, he said in an Interview that Sudan is “failed State”.  President Omar el Bashir fired him for making that’s statement.

Around 2009 he was quoted in the Media saying “CPA should be renegotiated.’’  This annoyed the Government  and SPLM later he said, he was misquoted

When  Deng Alor and Kosti Manibe were sacked he said  this would  ‘’ cause tribal conflict’’.  For the above, the Government was planning to punish Pagan.

Majok Agot is also of the same calibre.  When he was Commander in Bar el gazal during the liberation war he was quoted verbally saying “Dinka Bare el gazal are foolish majority”.

In the funeral of Journalist Isaiah Abraham, who was assassinated in Juba he narrated Fable of the Cow that does not give milk that could not be bought by neighbor thus, it should be slaughtered on the butchery.  What is the meaning of the fable of the cow?  Everyone has his own interpretation. Some sources closes to President Kiir said that Fable put the relationship between Majak and the President to its lowest level.

Another sources says , the bodyguards of President saying  they always see with twisted mouth when President is speaking in public, this is contemptible posture according to them

The Author has no ideas about Ambassador Ezekiel Lol , he is obscure diplomat, who has never been quoted in public talking politic  Oyai is disciplined officer, whose name was not heard in secret activities.

In conclusion, the government must separate Loose Tongue from Coup plot.  These four men are not Coup makers because if they were involved Military Coup, they would have left on December 15 night like Riek Machar.  They would have not stayed on their houses until they were arrested.  The fact is that they were sympathetic to Coup plotters. And being wisher of something does not qualify as participant, they are millions coup sympathizers now in Juba What is unique about them ?  let them go  The government and the Ministry of Justice must be Judicious in handling the citizen cases.  The Government or state must not witch-hunt its people for unimportant unjustified reasons.  It must not equate the big talk of Majak and Pagan with Coup.  Majok and Pagan are victim of loose talk.  Oyai and Lol are just scapegoat or the companion of the former.

So Mr. President you have been magnanimous all along, release your men before they are traumatize…  They are hundred percent better than those, you pardoned and granted them amnesty before. Release them. let them go.

Inspirational Speech from Lupita Nyong’o